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iandhon How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16

Definitely an old article but a lot is still moving along in the DoD cloud native space. The article mentions Platform One, which has done a lot to provide open source resources for those using k8s within the DoD community.

There was a decent number of people who left Platform One and started Defense Unicorns. If you are interested in disconnected k8s deployments, checkout their open source project Zarf. - https://zarf.dev/

They also have an interesting OSCAL compliance through kyverno project called Lula. - https://github.com/defenseunicorns/lula

iandhon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)

Lockheed Martin | Full Stack Engineer | Remote (US) or Littleton, CO | Full-Time

Full Stack Software Engineer supporting the Lockheed Martin Software Factory activities within the Enterprise Operations business area. This Enterprise IT Full Stack Engineer position is responsible for developing, modifying, testing deploying and maintaining applications in support of the Lockheed Martin Software Factory. The selected candidate will be a thought leader and a key technical resource on the Software Factory full stack engineering team. As part of a hands-on enablement service, resources on this team will pair with program engineering teams across the business. In addition to hands on enablement of program teams this position will design, develop, and release reusable components of a DevOps pipeline to be consumed by the enterprise.

Apply at:

- https://www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/job/littleton/full-stack-...

iandhon Experimental aircraft speeds to Mach 5.1 in test flight

I'm not sure where you got this fact, but HTV-2 had two independent RF communication systems and flew close to Mach 20.

I do agree with you that the Air Force wants hypersonic flight vehicles. Looks like air-breathing hypersonics are the priority.

iandhon Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says

Thanks for sharing the video. Yeah, while its not Falcon there are tons of classified launches coming from the Cape. Do you remember if the vehicle was flying south or east?

iandhon Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says

There as yet to be a third flight. DARPA is surprisingly open about the Falcon HTV-2 test flights. The releases have included more info that I would have expected.

DARPA was actually live tweeting the 2nd flight.

iandhon Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says

The "gradual wearing of the vehicle's skin" is called is called ablation.

Its a standard way both hyper sonic and reentry vehicles manage heat. Basically the skin boils off creating a pressure wave that the vehicle flights behind.

Wikipedia has a good description of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_reentry#Ablative

iandhon Ask HN: Beer tonight in San Francisco area?

A little late, but sure! I'm up for meeting at Thirsty Bear. They have a sour cherry wheat on cask that should be good. Shoot me an email at ian.dunbarhall@gmail.com if you are still interested.